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Elegy in Blue: Mark Helprin Still Believes in Heroes
Reading Mark Helprin ’s Elegy in Blue feels like visiting an old friend, a friend who is clearly aging, (as am I) but still his brilliant s...
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Love the soundtrack. And you, of course!
ReplyDeleteThe sound track is my FAVES! OBVI!!!!
ReplyDeleteGus,
ReplyDeletei had a nice dinner with a bunch of friends here in brazil on Sunday, and of course the attacks ended up being the "raison d´etre" of the conversations. I ended up using your video as the core of my reasoning. It is indeed funny how our good deeds end up enlightening other people´s lives, even when we don´t even imagine how.
Thanks Ivan!
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